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Show SURPRISE ATTACK BY THEGERIHANS Attempt Made to Capture One of the Defenses of Verdun. Paris, Jan. 1. Bombardments and minor patrol engagements continue to prevail on all the fronts except in Rumania, where iho Teutonic allies are keeping up their inroads into the kingdom. The Russians and Rumanians Ruma-nians aro being steadily driven bark from the Transylvanlan Alps and lw er .Moldavian region their line in tlu latter district now resting half-way between be-tween Rimnik-Sarat and Kokshany Around Braila, on both sides of the Danube, the invaders have further iu the defenders of the territory. Near Fokshany and thence southeast to the Danube. Petrograd reports the Russians Rus-sians and Rumanians have taken up new positions without pressure from the. Teutonic allies. In Dobrudja the j invaders, 23 battalions strong, have forced the defenders to ive ground. In the Verdun sector, easl of the rChambrettes farm, the Germans at- I tempted a strong surprise attack 'against the French positions but were: repulsed, according to Paris Iu the ' region of Ypres and Loos considerable consider-able artillery activity has prealled. On the front in Russia comparative quiet prevails while in the Austro-Itallan Austro-Itallan theatre the usual bombard ments are in progress. No reports have been received from the Macedonian Macedo-nian theatre. ! rtr |
